Bad language Quote by Liane Moriarty

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought.…

— Markus Zusak

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all…

— D.H. Lawrence

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds…

— Mark Helprin

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

— Anne Ursu

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with…

— Cornelia Funke

“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.”

— Betty Smith

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

— Anthony Marra

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with…

— Dean Koontz

“Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my…

— Charles Dickens

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The…

— Jean Rhys

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons